John Niedermeyer is a Brooklyn-based design manager and internets enthusiast at <a href="http://buzzfeed.com">BuzzFeed</a>. Previously, he was a digital designer and editor at <a href="http://nytimes.com">The New York Times</a>.

I’m post­ing this from inside Win­dows Live Writer, a new­ly released “weblog­ging” appli­ca­tion by Microsoft. It’s a slick lit­tle win­dows app, with sup­port for pub­lish­ing to Mov­able Type, Word­Press, as well as Live Spaces, by default.

It is not often, I say good things about Microsoft prod­ucts, but with this free-blog­ging tool, I have to say: write on! …the soft­ware actu­al­ly lets you use your blog styles for edit­ing, has abil­i­ty to add plu­g­ins, and has an SDK to extend the func­tion­al­i­ty of the pro­gram. You can also swap out Microsoft Maps for say Google Maps.